盐城师范学院考试试卷

盐城师范学院考试试卷

2006 - 2007 学年第二学期

文学院汉语言文学专业《外国文学（2）》（双语教学课程）试卷B 班级学号姓名

英文试题部分

一、是非题（对划“√”，错划“×”，本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分）

1. Enlightenment is a cultural and thought movement took place in Europe in a very large scale in 18th century. To a great extent, Enlightenment was the product of social progress and the advancement of science and technology.

2. According to the Enlighteners, the universe is fundamentally rational, that is, it can be understood through the use of reason alone; and truth can be arrived at through empirical observation, the use of reason, and systematic doubt.

3. What is common with the French enlighteners is that almost all of them were not only literary writers but thinkers and philosophers as well.

4. In order to promulgate the new thought, the enlighteners in France edited a great encyclopedia (consisting of 37 volumes) in 30 years, and they infiltrated their new thought into the entries. V oltaire was the editor-in-chief, Diderot, Rousseau, Montesquieu all participated such a great project.

5. Although Neo-classicism still played in important role in the 18th century European literature, the main stream of literature of this age was undoubtedly enlightenment literature.

6. Swift's satirical masterpiece Gulliver's Travels appeared in 1726. It is specially written for children.

7. Denis Diderot’s(1713–84) Persian Letters(1721) is an epistolary novel, which

consists of many letters. It was one of the earliest enlightenment literary works in 18th century France. It is both a philosophical and epistolary novel.

8．The younger-generation Romanticists(active romanticists) were represented by Byron(1788–1824), Shelley(1792–1822), and Keats(1795–1821). They expressed showed great sympathy for the people of lower classes and held out an ideal, though a vague one, of a future society free from oppression and exploitation. The younger generation of English romanticists also showed much sympathy on the liberation movement in some oppressed nations, such Italy, Greek and Spain.

9. Realism in the 19th century is a kind of literary movement, and it had nothing to do with the development of natural sciences.

10. Reason is the core idea of enlightenment. Literally, “reason” is the power of mind to understand, form opinions.

二、作家与作品（本大题共10小题，共10分）

Authors for you to choose:

A.Chateaubriand

B. Byron

C. Shelley

D. Thackeray

E. Emily Bronte

F. Rousseau

G. Hugo

H. Balzac

I. Stendhal

J. Gothe

三、翻译题（将下面一段英文翻译成中文，本题15分）

The implication of the title The Red and the Black Stendhal took a lot of time and care in deciding what the title of his novel would be. He first considered Julien Sorel, since it would appropriately reflect the focus on the rise and fall of his protagonist. But Stendhal was wary of the romantic tradition of naming a novel after the protagonist. He especially disliked Chateaubriand and his use of proper names in titles. As a result, Stendhal chose a more abstract and symbolic title, coupled with the subtitle "a chronicle of 1830." The colors red and black refer to the different colors worn by the army and the clergy in nineteenth-century France. The black robes and suits worn by priests and Julien i n the novel are clear references to the Catholic Church（天主教会）. The red color of the military uniforms that Julien wears evokes the French army.

Julien’s social climbing and his failure was typical in Stendhal’s time. In the time during the Restoration, aristocrats were trying to restore what they had lost in the Revolution. Young men from the layer of petit bourgeoisie, Julien being one of them, had little chance in the society, although they were well educated.

Julien realizes that during the Restoration, the most powerful and influential political leaders belong to the clergy. Julien's hypocritical devotion to the Church and his constant wavering between a life in the clergy and a career in the military are thus implied by the novel's title. The coupling of the two colors can thus be said to restrict Julien's free will in that he only has two choices in life. To rise in French society he can only change in and out of red or black clothing: he can not wear what he wants to.

四、分析题（阅读下列英文诗歌，分析其特色，并结合本诗谈谈浪漫主义文学的特点；无需将全诗翻译成中文。本题用中文答题。本题共15分）

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

William Wordsworth